Author W. Blake Gray

Today I take pleasure in upending one of the most common wine story tropes: the "disappearing underappreciated wine" story. These stories play the emotions like a zither: loss, urgency to act, the...

Picture a public tasting, an important one, held in Montpellier, France. People are tasting American wines. And grimacing. The wines are too sweet. Too primitive. And too funky. People want to like them,...

The seminar was ground-breaking for UC Davis, which previously always called Brettanomyces in wine a "spoilage organism." This was the first time the university acknowledged that brett is an important part of some wines' terroir.

James Ontiveros met me at Pappy's for breakfast. It's a farm-country diner in Santa Maria Valley, California, where the omelets almost cover a whole plate. We spent a morning together, while his wife was...

"Artistic expression is the window to a person's soul. Since I began making wine in 2005, La Fenêtre -- French for 'The Window' -- has been the expression of my art: winemaking." -- Wine back-label copy Is...

Château Couronneau What if I told you there's a region with 6th-generation family-owned wineries, passionate young winemakers, and distinctive red and white wines that are truly reflective of their...

I used to make lousy cocktails. Not anymore. I didn't go to a bartending class. Instead, I just paid attention to what good bartenders do, and took a few simple steps. Now I'm going to share. This is not...

Sharpen your poison pens, sommeliers, because you're going to hate this column. When I'm dining in one of the trendy restaurants I love, I often think about how impenetrable the wine list must look to the...